{"334571":{"#nid":"334571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s graduate planning program ranked No. 5 nationally","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Master of City and Regional Planning is building its national stature. Planetizen, an online publication that caters to urban and regional planning professionals \u0026nbsp;has just released its top schools for urban planners. Georgia Tech has climbed from No. 8 to No. 5 in the country since the last edition was published\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four schools that have a higher rank than Georgia Tech are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1); University of California \u2013 Berkeley; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and University of California, Los Angeles. Rounding out the Top 10 are: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (6); Cornell University (7); University of North Carolina \u2013 Chapel Hill (8); University of Southern California (9); and Harvard University (10).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Planetizen Guide is a widely-used, rich source of information about graduate planning programs in the United States,\u201d said Bruce Stiftel, chair of the School of City and Regional Planning, in a story written on its website. \u201cIdentification as a top five program by Planetizen in their performance indicator-based ranking is a welcome recognition of Georgia Tech\u2019s innovative and professionally-engaged planning education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2014-10-16 08:39:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"maritime","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/georgia-techs-graduate-planning-program-ranks-no-5-in-u-s\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6441","name":"5th"},{"id":"9091","name":"mcrp"},{"id":"106601","name":"nationally ranked"},{"id":"101981","name":"planetizen"},{"id":"2456","name":"ranking"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}